BAKNK/1

Macalister/1907, 108: `...first brought to knowledge through the exertions of the late Father Barry, who, after describing them, had them buried again where they were found. They were afterwards re-exhumed, however, by Mrs Donovan's sons'.

Macalister/1945, 85: `Afterwards under the influence of Rev. Canon Power, twelve of the stones were removed to University College, Cork...This stone was not taken to Cork: being desirous of checking these observations and of having a drawing I revisited the farm, but found it deserted, the lands let for grazing, the house empty and derelict, and no trace or tradition of the stones discoverable anywhere'.

Revisiting the sight in preparation for _CIIC_ Macalister was unable to find either the stones or any memory of them.Macalister/1907, 108, `...first brought to knowledge through the exertions of the late Father Barry, who, after describing them, had them buried again where they were found. They were afterwards re-exhumed, however, by Mrs Donovan's sons'.

Macalister/1945, 85:`This stone was not taken to Cork: being desirous of checking these observations and of having a drawing I revisited the farm, but found it deserted, the lands let for grazing, the house empty and derelict, and no trace or tradition of the stones discoverable anywhere'.

Notes

- (McManus/1991)McManus/1991, 110, argues that the element `MAILE- (<*mailyas, > OI Máel-, gen. Maíle-) 'cropped') … is extremely popular later in the names of clerics and it may be significant that the Ogam examples are late: … 82 MAILAGURO'.

Language:

Goidelic (ogham)

Ling. Notes:

See McManus/1991, 88, 116, 180.

Palaeography:

none

Legibility:

poorMacalister/1945, 85:`Only the first two notches remaining of 2I. Before my V there was room for the remaining three, and perhaps three other scores, all broken away by the fracture. In the following edge of this gap, where Barry reads L, I found the side of an additional score, turning this letter into a V; and in place of his ]LA I found LEB, followed by at least three vowel-notches'.

Mailaguro (Language: Goidelic; Gender: male)
Macalister/1907, 108: `Mailaguro is, of course, the Mailagrai of the Four Masters'. McManus/1991, 110, argues that the element `MAILE- (<*mailyas, > OI Máel-, gen. Maíle-) 'cropped') … is extremely popular later in the names of clerics and it may be significant that the Ogam examples are late: … 82 MAILAGURO'. On p. 180, he continues, `On MAILGURO see Meyer[/1912] 796-7, who suggests the division MAILA-GURO, taking the second element as the gen. Of a u-stem adj. Corresponding to OI gor (o-/a- stem) 'pious''.